I'm sure they can't do that but omg I'm getting more scared, I feel like either it's something that's gonna be really insignificant or like everybody is gonna be getting the notices/shut downE.
Lord this is scary. I'd love to move to Canada now.
Ugh I might delete it, but I only have like 3 things (all of which I already know).
So wait, will we get in trouble for stuff we download before July 1st or just after? I haven't even downloaded much recently, like moving forward it wouldn't be a problem, but in the past... I'd be in so much trouble! We gotta have a code word to find each other in prison so we can stick together y'all
According to a leading recording industry spokesman, service providers such as Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Cablevision and Time Warner Cable are expected to begin enforcing ramped-up anti-piracy policies in the next few months.
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"Each ISP has to develop their infrastructure for automating the system," Cary Sherman, CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, said this week at a publishers conference in New York. "Every ISP has to do it differently, depending on the architecture of its particular network. Some are nearing completion, and others are a little further from completion."
The Copyright Alert System, which the recording industry's trade group first announced in July, has alternately been called a "gradual elevation" approach or the "six strikes" plan because of the warnings that providers would give before curbing a user's Internet access. Unlike SOPA, it targets individual Web users, not websites.
After five or six alerts that their account appears to have been used to download content illegally, the ISP could take measures including temporarily throttling (i.e. dramatically slowing down) Internet speed, redirecting users to a Web page asking them to contact their provider or other measures.
Supporters said they expect most Web users will stop downloading copyrighted material once they realize it's not legal.
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